Monthly Archives: July 2007
A Wondrous Encounter…
In a fitting annex to my earlier post on the joys of HD video, it’s just been announced that Steven Spielberg’s splendid “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is to be released on DVD on November 13. It’s hard to … Continue reading
On Hiatus
Unless you’re [quite understandably] hiding in a cave you may have heard that a worthless, talentless, ungrateful, coke-snorting has-been with whose name I would never sully these pages got rightfully arrested yesterday for 1st-degree stupidity and terminal ignorance? Now the … Continue reading
HD-DVD…DOA?
With an albeit tenuous connection to yesterday’s post, news is emerging of a major development in the world of Hi-Def media: Blockbuster today announced it will rent only Blu Ray-format disks in its 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def … Continue reading
Big Secret? She was once a guy…
Question: What do you do when your entire concept already hit rock bottom and left a dent?Answer?: Buy the baddest John Deere excavator on the planet and start digging, naturally! Just in case you were endearingly delusional enough to think … Continue reading
Oh, F***….orget It !
Because, of course, they have nothing more pressing to attend to, Congress is now making moves to repeal the major Networks’ recent court victory over the FCC’s “fleeting expletive” ruling. A week after a Senate panel rejected one anal attempt … Continue reading
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…Villainy
A vast amount of money, time and intellect has been invested in researching the possibility that we may not be alone in the blackness of space, and whether in fact other life-forms have been monitoring events on this curious little … Continue reading
CBS – Cardigan Broadcasting Service
CBS News has decided to make some changes that could finally raise its perennially last-place morning program to a more competitive location in the ratings. The plan is to abandon the current format that lets Affiliate stations interrupt with local … Continue reading
Child labor should never be reality…
I would expect to read something like this in a novel by Dickens, but apparently it’s rather more recent… It seems CBS are so obsessed with the precious ‘bottom line,’ they decided to indulge in a little child labor. A … Continue reading
And here is the News…
Today’s New York Times relates the saddening story of how the effervescent Katie Couric has become the darling of Network news in every conceivable aspect. Except ratings. Now, numerous corporate knives are being eagerly prepped for revenge. Since joining the … Continue reading
Anybody care to Referee?
The New York Times reported yesterday that some of Hollywood’s highest-ranking suits are trying to cancel the time-honored system of paying residuals to Writers, Actors and Directors for the re-use of movies and TV shows after the first run. Their … Continue reading
